tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post1793857397486040968..comments2024-01-27T00:42:48.097-08:00Comments on Renaissance Oaf: A Truly Horrid Idea and Applebee's Is Just Plain NastySean Cravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13763869499494698057noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post-2907081809070764062008-12-23T18:33:00.000-08:002008-12-23T18:33:00.000-08:00Ah -- so we're talking about the folks putting the...Ah -- so we're talking about the folks putting the low into lowest common denominator. Gotcha.Sean Cravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13763869499494698057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post-25842228731960939412008-12-23T16:44:00.000-08:002008-12-23T16:44:00.000-08:00Aside from the food, which I also find awful, it's...Aside from the food, which I also find awful, it's a certain <I>cross-section</I> of the population that goes to Applebee's. These are the people who can't afford Chili's and think that TGIF is too fancy. The people who skip the Best Buy ad in the Sunday paper and go straight for the Wal-Mart one.<BR/>I fear these people, and they eat at Applebee's.Zachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08692080707969333711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post-52168092032852172572008-12-23T08:51:00.000-08:002008-12-23T08:51:00.000-08:00That sounds easy enough. I might give it a try, an...That sounds easy enough. I might give it a try, and yeah, I guess this'd work great with my ham pasta. So thanks for the recipe! <BR/><BR/>Merry Christmas Sean! :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post-24891421580786336282008-12-23T06:50:00.000-08:002008-12-23T06:50:00.000-08:00Actually it wasn't a sad experience -- it was hila...Actually it wasn't a sad experience -- it was hilarious. I was smirking and giggling throughout the meal and when I mentioned that I might write about it on my blog, my granddaughter told me I should make sure to say that both she and her brother --<BR/><BR/>http://seancraven.blogspot.com/search/label/kids<BR/><BR/>-- left some of their fries behind. "When kids don't finish their fries that's a bad meal."<BR/><BR/>As for the mushrooms. I'm not a recipe cook (I read 'em for inspiration but I cook by smell, taste, and eye) but this is something to work from.<BR/><BR/>Take garlic, parsley (I strongly prefer Italian flat-leafed parsley), salt, pepper, lemon juice, and butter and cream them together -- the end result should be a highly seasoned tart mixture with some of the lemon juice still loose in the bowl.<BR/><BR/>Then take your mushrooms, take the stems out, and put some butter into the hollows. I usually use crimini mushrooms, the little brown button mushrooms, and fill the entire hollow. If you were using shitakes or Portobellos or other flatter mushrooms you'd use only as much of the butter as you'd want to eat when they're done.<BR/><BR/>Then put them into a baking pan, put them in the oven at 350 degrees, and bake them until the butter is bubbling and the mushrooms are cooked.<BR/><BR/>As a cook's treat, get a slice of nice bread and use it to mop up the buttery brown juices in the bottom of the pan. Mmmm.<BR/><BR/>I've been thinking about putting a few breadcrumbs into the mushrooms along with the butter. We'll see how that works.Sean Cravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13763869499494698057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379518858474986857.post-71073912929819750462008-12-23T00:17:00.000-08:002008-12-23T00:17:00.000-08:00Wow... that was... just sad.Despite the bad food r...Wow... that was... just sad.<BR/>Despite the bad food review, I find the name Appleby's really cute (but not as much as I love Chuck E. Cheese):p<BR/><BR/>But I got quite interested in those stuffed mushrooms though. :pAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com